Elie wrote Night for several different important reasons about the Jews in the Holocaust. The first reason Elie wrote this book is to give some meaning to his survival to show how important it means to him. Elie not only wrote this book for all the people out there to show what the Jews went through but this book made Elie who he is today as a person, writer, and human. Also Elie did not want these crimes committed by the Germans to be erased from history. Elie also wanted to write this book because the dictionary had meager, pale, and lifeless facts to offer about the holocaust. Elie had many good reasons to write this book it either to give a better example of the holocaust or to get his story out to public.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Kristallnacht is the night of broken glass when many Jewish synagogues windows were shattered during the programs. It happened on November 9-10 in 1938.
Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and 13 other top ranking Nazi officials.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust? Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457 CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
Blacks, gays, gypsies, poles, people with disabilities, soviet prisoners of war, afro Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their fate was put in work camps then death.
The three types of ghettos were closed open and destruction. The closed ghettos situated primarily in German-occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet Union, open had no walls or fences, but there were restrictions on entering and leaving, destruction were tightly sealed off and existed for between two and six weeks before the Germans and/or their collaborators deported or shot the Jewish population concentrated in them. In city districts the ghettos were bad.
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Harrison C. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Life behind Elie
Elie wrote Night for several different important reasons about the Jews in the Holocaust. The first reason Elie wrote this book is to give some meaning to his survival to show how important it means to him. Elie not only wrote this book for all the people out there to show what the Jews went through but this book made Elie who he is today as a person, writer, and human. Also Elie did not want these crimes committed by the Germans to be erased from history. Elie also wanted to write this book because the dictionary had meager, pale, and lifeless facts to offer about the holocaust. Elie had many good reasons to write this book it either to give a better example of the holocaust or to get his story out to public.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and 13 other top ranking Nazi officials.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142